Bergen Community College Resources

Bergen Community College Student Portal Website Get Bergen Community College’s Student Portal Mobile App: Download “Ellucian GO” from Google Play for Android devices or from the App Store for Apple devices. You can access the academic calendar, your course schedule, financial aid information, grades and much more. You can even register your courses and logon to Moodle!

Free Boot Camps are available for Intermediate Algebra (MAT-160), Pre-Calculus (MAT-180) and Introduction to Chemistry (CHM-100). Boot Camp attendance is January 3rd, 4th, 7th and 8th, 2019. Students may take a proficiency exam after completing the boot camp and possibly test out of the course!

Free Prep Classes are also available to give students a better foundation for courses they will be taking in upcoming semesters.

Students who attend all sessions on time will be entered for a chance to win a free textbook.

FAFSA & HESAA Deadlines

The deadline to complete the 2019-2020 FAFSA and the New Jersey Additional Application Questions is April 15th for students who were previously awarded NJ TAG (Tuition Aid Grant Program). Please use 2017 tax information when completing the 2019-2020 FAFSA and the New Jersey Additional Application Questions.

Financial Aid TV You can browse through video playlists by category, go through the financial aid process in order, or you can search for an answer to your question. These short videos also have a typewritten script that runs alongside it so you can read or listen.

HESSA (Higher Education Student Assistance Authority) Resources

HESAA Student Portal Website (NJFAMS) If you didn’t complete the New Jersey Additional Application Questions at the end of the FAFSA, please create a student login, click on the”To Do List” on the Home menu, and complete the questions.

P.L. 2005, c. 168 (Bill S2477): approved August 5, 2005, effective immediately. This bill changed the criteria for continued receipt of NJ STARS scholarship after first year of enrollment in a county college.

P.L. 2005, c. 359 (Bill S2905): approved January 12, 2006, effective June 30, 2006. This bill establishes the NJ STARS II program for NJ STARS scholars who advance to a New Jersey four-year public institution of higher education.

P.L. 2007, c. 214 (Bill A3253): approved December 20, 2007, effective immediately. This bill provided a military service exemption to the requirement of continuous enrollment under the NJ STARS and NJ STARS II programs.

P.L. 2014, c. 55 (Bill A2364): approved September 10, 2014, effective immediately. This bill provides that eligibility for the NJ STARS program be based on class rank at completion of student’s junior year or senior year of high school.

P.L. 2017, c.360 (Bill A2565): approved January 16, 2018, effective immediately and first applicable to the 2015-2016 academic year. This bill allows NJ STARS and NJ STARS II scholarship recipients to maintain program eligibility in the event that medical condition or recent death of parent or spouse prevents enrollment as full-time student.